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Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 4.

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Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 3.

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Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 3.

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Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 2.

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Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 2.

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Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 1.

I woke this morning to fresh snow – the clinging kind that coats the world, but only from the side of the direction of the storm, and lightly and delicately, not an oppressive mass.

I’ll be featuring photos from the storm over the next few days. All were taken on McMillan Mesa in Flagstaff, Arizona. In this photo the Dry Lake Hills rise in the background. They are lava domes that stanched the flows of extrusive lava that formed the mesa on which I live.

Ponderosa Snow Series, No. 1.

I woke this morning to fresh snow – the clinging kind that coats the world, but only from the side of the direction of the storm, and lightly and delicately, not an oppressive mass.

Color, texture, and pattern studies of lichen and old snow.

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All of these photos were taken on Campbell Mesa, in the Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Color, texture, and pattern studies of lichen and old snow.

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All of these photos were taken on Campbell Mesa, in the Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Poking Through: A Christmas fern frond (Polystichum acrostichoides) emerging from the snow in the shade garden. This is our first day since the great snow that temperatures have been above freezing. Let the great thaw begin!

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